On 13 June 2013 16:13, Byte Soup <bytes...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently cloned a winXP image into a VM and then can run up the VM from > a Linux host. The Linux host is running on fairly new hardware which is > UEFI compatible but the Linux OS as far as I know is using legacy BIOS and > grub. > > Would I have problems with running the Win8 image considering its coming > from a machine thats running UEFI boot machine? To give you all the idea of > the process its quite simple, but just take a long time > > 1. Grab a raw image (mount win8 HDD in a caddy): > > dd if=/dev/sdb of=/path/to/image > > 2. Convert the image from Raw > > http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp22252528 > > Has anyone done this successfully on a UEFI image? > > This isn't really an Ubuntu question, but I don't believe UEFI is supported in Virtualbox as yet so it's unlikely that a Windows 8 image will boot. It looks like the evaluation version of Windows 8 Enterprise will and there's the cloud edition of 2012 server.
s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib"
-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
